City officials are charging the family $500 for “emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense under Ohio Revised Code,” according to a document filed in Cuyahoga County court on Wednesday.

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“That the city would submit a bill and call itself a creditor after having had its own police officers slay 12-year-old Tamir displays a new pinnacle of callousness and insensitivity,” said an attorney for the family, Subodh Chandra. “The kind of poor judgment that it takes to do such a thing is nothing short of breathtaking. Who on earth would think this was a good idea and file this on behalf of the city? This adds insult to homicide.

The document was attached to a bill for the boy’s transportation from his home to a local hospital, where he died after being shot on a playground by Officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann on Nov. 22, 2014.

The two officers were not indicted in connection with Rice’s death, a decision that touched off protests calling for county Prosecutor Timothy McGinty to be fired. McGinty, who is seeking re-election, has refused to release the testimony of the grand jury involved in the case.

Cleveland Scene posted the creditor’s notice, which can be seen below.

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Ex-prosecutor demands congressional investigation after latest report on the FBI and Brett Kavanaugh

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had another allegation of sexual misconduct revealed on Saturday in a bombshell report in The New York Times.

"A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly," the newspaper reported.